While one-on-one corporate coaching has
been around for decades, working with men on deeper core
issues and roles has historically been the role/responsibility
of marriage and family therapists (MFTs), psychologists
(PhD or PsyD), and psychiatrists (MDs). A men’s life
coach is not meant to replace these important professionals,
but to work in conjunction with them. If you are experiencing
depression, stress related to a traumatic event, or other
mental illnesses, please contact one of the aforementioned
professionals for help. Sometimes, however, men who don’t
deal with mental illness still feel like something’s
wrong, like they got off track somewhere and aren’t
sure how to course correct. These men often just need encouragement
to decide what’s really important to them, support
in crafting a vision of what they want from life, and help
working through obstacles that block progress towards a
desired goal.
This is where coaching comes in.
The key difference between therapy and coaching is that
coaching is not focused on digging up or fleshing out the
past, along with its host of pains, and “why you are
the way you are.” My primary goal is to take a man,
right where he’s at, who knows in his heart he’s
not living to his potential, and partner with him, encouraging,
challenging, guiding, and supporting him along a particular
section of life’s journey. Coaches generally do not
promote keeping someone in coaching for a year or more;
in fact, we aim to accomplish the necessary work within
6-9 months. Though much can be accomplished in less time,
often in only 3 months, we must understand it took months
(more often years), to get you to this non-gratifying place.
It’s going to take time and considerable effort to
change course and do a respectable 180, especially when
deep fears, doubts, and past failures reside within you
and within those entrusted to your care. Any great deed
requires careful planning, overwhelming passion, considerable
effort, patient endurance, and unwavering persistence. It
cannot be successfully achieved otherwise.
So whether men’s coaching is for you or not, I invite
you…no, I implore you, to stop for a minute and do
a quick inventory of how things are currently in the important
relationships and roles in your life. Now consider how you
would ideally like them to be. Be brutally honest with yourself
about the distance between the two…yet refuse to lose
hope. If you’d like a partner to help you bridge that
distance, well, that’s what I’m here for.
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